Black Sweets

Liquorice makes up the majority of the black sweet category as there are just so many different kinds! There's liquorice wheels, sticks, rock twists, gums, coins and that's not even mentioning them all or when it's mixed with something else! Then you could have catherine wheels, cream rock, blackcurrant and toffee just to name a few! Liquorice is always a fast favourite whether it just be something to nibble on, to decorate a cake or ... other reasons. Liquorice wheels are used as wheels on train or car cakes or sometimes unraveled to be used as laces. Another sweet found in the black sweets category are tasty aniseed goodies. Army and Navy is a popular one. Of course, so are Black Jacks which should not be found without their orange counterpart Fruit Salads! These black and orange sweets also go great together for some spooky Halloween coloured treats!

Army & Navy

Sweet speaking, the Army and the Navy are the same thing. Same sweet, same shape, same flavour, all one smallish tablet with a liquorice menthol flavour. If you're not sure what that tastes like then think of a Black Jack and imagine a hard boiled version of that. All the taste of a Black Jack without it sticking in your teeth! Yum! You don't have to be in the Army or the Navy to eat them either! These sweets are for everyone... yay!

Hardboiled all the way through to the very central atom.

Made by Paynes and are the very best in the west (and the east and the whole wide world).

Black and White Mints

Made by Taveners, a neat sandwich of white mint with black liquorice in the middle. These sweets are unique in both taste and texture and are super yummy!

You may remember these from way back when but they are not quite like how they used to be. The layers used to be liquorice mint liquorice mint liquorice but now it's mint liquorice mint liquorice mint! This means that the sweets are now slightly more mint and slightly less liquorice but they still have that same delicious taste.

Black Jack Chews

The original Barratt (now Candy Land) Black Jacks are a classic British sweets and are most commonly found with their best friend Fruit Salads. Black Jacks are aniseed flavoured chewy black rectangles that are loved by children and adults alike. Children love the way that their tongues go black after munching on a few of them and adults love remembering one of the tastes of their childhood.

Black Jacks are so named because their packet used to feature a smiling golliwog on the packet back in the 1920's. Back then, this was deemed okay to use for advertising liquorice but, by the late 1980's, Barratt realised the error of their ways and rebranded the offensive packaging with a pirate logo instead. However, this logo was also gone by the early 1990's and became the distinctive black and white swirl pattern that we all remember. The design was yet again changed in 2008 to a black packet with red writing. Luckily, despite all the design changes, the taste stayed the same... yum!

Everton Mints

Everton Mints are a very traditional British sweet that are particularly popular with the older patrons of the shop. Everton Mints are called such because, predictably, they were originally made in Everton in Mother Noblett's Toffee Shop in the 19th Century. They are the colours of the old Everton Football team and were made to be distributed at Everton football matches. They are just as popular now as they were then.

Liquorice Allsorts have been around since 1842 and they are now the UK's favourite liquorice sweet! They were originally created by accident when a salesman for the Bassett's company was arranging an order with a customer and he accidentally knocked over his tray of liquorice samples which sent them scattering everywhere. The buyer happened to like the look of this random assortment of sweets and so he placed an order for them there and then. And so the liquorice allsorts were created.

I was walking around the lake the other day and I saw a man fishing so I asked him what bait he was using. He replied, 'Liquorice' so I wondered what he'd caught with that and so he told me that he'd caught 'Allsorts!'

Liquorice Cream Rock

Liquorice Cream Rock is part of the liquorice allsorts crew. If these are your favourite then you no longer need to worry about picking them out as we have a whole bag here ready for you! The lovely creamy fruity rock is wrapped in a yummy liquorice hug.

Liquorice Wheels

Long rolled strands of chewy liquorice, not too hard, not too soft. Like the well-known Catherine Wheel but without the aniseed spog in the middle. Lots of fun to eat if you like to slowly unravel the wheel as you chomp on it or perhaps you just like to eat it all in one go. Whichever way that you like to eat it this liquorice always tastes delicious!

Wine Gums

Lion's Wine Gums are the best and tastiest wine gums. The way that they are made ensures a firmer texture and longer lasting flavour than most wine gums on the market. Of course, these sweets do not actually contain any alcohol (wine or otherwise!) but the colours of the sweet are named after it: port, sherry, champagne, burgundy, gin and claret. Wine gums also come in five distinct shapes: kidney, crown, diamond, circle and rectangle. Lion Wine Gums have kept up with the tradition of the black gum being liquorice flavoured.